BREAKING: The IDF is already in the center of Rafah. IDF is advancing rapidly in Rafah and has reached the city center: Arab reports about IDF tanks in the Elganina neighborhood - marked in red. The Al Salam neighborhood - marked in red, and the Brazil neighborhood - marked in… pic.twitter.com/qfMSZyC0qe
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) May 14, 2024
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| Putz Mayor Grinberg |
A congressional aide confirmed to DIN that the Biden administration notified Congress Tuesday that it plans to deliver more than $1 billion in new weapons to the Jewish state amid the bomb shipment pause.
The weapons package, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would include $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, but the supplies are not expected to reach the battlefield anytime soon. This was after enormous pressure!
President Biden would veto legislation barring the US from withholding the shipment of military weapons to Israel, arguing that it would prevent the commander in chief from executing “effective foreign policy, the White House announced Tuesday.
The Israel Security Assistance Support Act, introduced by Republicans in the Senate and House and Representatives, would compel the Biden administration to quickly deliver previously approved weapons to Israel and withhold funds from the secretary of defense, secretary of state and National Security Council until the shipments currently on pause are delivered.
“The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 8369, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, which seeks to limit the President’s discretion to ensure that the delivery of certain defense articles and services aligns with U.S. foreign policy objectives,” the White House said in a statement of administration policy, commenting on the House version of the bill.
“The bill would undermine the President’s ability to execute an effective foreign policy,” the statement continued, deriding the legislation as a “misguided reaction” and a “distortion” of Biden’s threat to withhold the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli military.
“We strongly oppose attempts to constrain the president’s ability to deploy U.S. security assistance consistent with U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives,” the White House said.
“If the President were presented with H.R. 8369, he would veto it.”
The verdict is in and the people have spoken.
The court of public opinion doesn’t give a damn about Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.
Outside Manhattan and other Democrat strongholds, Americans don’t care whether a flaky porn actress and an ex-con serial liar with a closet full of axes to grind are telling the truth.
In fact, media obsession about the partisan show trial of defendant Donald Trump is obscuring a far more significant truth about him.
Candidate Trump has opened his biggest lead in the presidential campaign.
Polls of battleground states, along with such anecdotal evidence as the enormous turnout of 100,000 people at his New Jersey rally and dispirited concessions by Joe Biden supporters, signal that we’ve reached a key turning point in the battle for the White House.
Yes, yes, it’s far from over.
But recent signs suggest it’s now Trump’s race to win or lose.
Authorities have identified a vessel fitting that description of the one that hit Ella Riley Adler on Saturday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Tuesday afternoon.
The owner of the boat – who has not been publicly identified – is cooperating with the investigation, the statement added.
Ella was enjoying a water skiing trip off Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach when she fell into the water while being towed, the FWC explained.
She was then hit by the center console of an oncoming boat, which did not slow down or stop, witnesses said.
The Miami City Ballet dancer was left floating in the water with what first responders described as “a lot of blood” coming from her body.
The teen was still wearing her life vest and water skis when the boat – described as a light blue vessel with a dark blue bottom – plowed over her.
“You were taken from us way too soon, and the world has been robbed of all the things you could have achieved. But you will always be here with us and your friends and family will carry your energy and spirit forever,” Ella’s father, Matthew Adler, wrote in an emotional letter that was read at Ella's packed funeral on Monday.
Ella – who appeared in over 100 performances with the Miami City Ballet – took on a role in her school’s production of “Chicago” shortly before she died, one friend told the crowd at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach.
As the investigation is ongoing, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission issued an ongoing appeal for witnesses who saw the hit-and-run or may have captured video of the incident.
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| Tzlil, age 4, with her grandfather Nachman Berko circa 1993. |
I'm a third-generation child of Holocaust survivors. Almost all of my family from my father's side was gassed to death in the Auschwitz gas chambers.
Nearly 20 years ago, I visited the death camps where my family perished. There, at the gas chambers in Auschwitz, I recited their names out loud to 'elevate their souls' (L'iluy Neshama). As we believe in Judaism, the soul never dies, and we can help elevate a soul to a higher place in its journey to the afterlife, with good deeds, prayers, and remembrance.
As I called out my family members' names in the devil's 'death factory,' it suddenly hit me hard that right where I was standing, millions of Jews, my family included, had been reduced to only a number tattooed on their cold flesh, as well as God's arm. They were stripped of their identity and former selves and transformed into a combination of 'digits' – living 'codes' to humanity's locked heart. There I was, saying their names. Who they really were. What they were before true evil took them away.
My grandparents survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel. As a child, I used to sleep over at my grandparents' little house on their farm. I remember waking up in the middle of the night to my beloved grandfather screaming in Hungarian; he was haunted by the nightmare of his 4-year-old sister burning alive and turning into black ashes. To his very last day, he couldn't sleep without night terrors of what had happened to his family at the hands of the Nazis and their many helpers.
I remember myself just standing there. A little girl, frozen at the entrance of his room, looking at him and crying silently as my grandfather shouted, sweated, and writhed from real horror dreams. Flashbacks of the Holocaust, which he survived but never escaped.
The Holocaust runs in my blood. It's a significant part of the very essence of who I am. It's intertwined with my soul, at the very core of my being.
I promised my grandfather that we will DEFEND what he and all of our beloved Holocaust survivors fought for. We will NEVER GIVE UP, and we will NEVER LET GO. We are proud Jews with a strong moral army and we will keep my promise to him. Am Yisrael Chai (the nation of Israel lives).
I wrote the poem below (translated from Hebrew) for my brave grandfather, Nachman Berko, may his memory be a blessing, and to my extended family that left our world through a chimney as the blue sky turned black.
